On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Keith C. Ivey wrote: > We're currently using MyISAM tables for everything. Are there > circumstances in which the InnoDB table type would be better even if > we're not going to use commit/rollback, or are transactions the only > advantage of InnoDB?
Concurrency is the the other main benefit. > Would InnoDB's row-level locking improve speed over MyISAM for > tables that have lots of updates and inserts, or does the > transaction overhead cancel that out? It does not cancel out the overhead (in my experience). Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 28 days, processed 624,393,907 queries (257/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
